Note: Florian in the comments points me at the documentation (albeit rather concise) for this in the API documentation under Vendor Overrides. GSettings, like GConf before it, allows the administrator of a system to override the default settings or lock down keys to particular settings. This is well documented in the GNOME wiki. However GConf [...]
You know, it would be really good if someone could take ShairPort, glue that to gst-rtsp-server, and then implement the Rygel MediaServer specification, letting me play music from my iPhone on my Raumfeld UPnP speakers. I’d actually like this so much that I’m willing to put up some of my own hard cash to see [...]
Thanks to those nice people at Novell and Collabora, libsocialweb now supports Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Plurk, Sina, SmugMug, Twitter, Vimeo and YouTube. As if that isn’t enough, there are patches queued to bring back MySpace. Thanks Novell and Collabora!
Shock news: a Tasks release! Announcing 0.19: Lots of translations Fix i18n in the about dialog Yeah, it’s all go on the Tasks front… Tarballs on the Pimlico site, or gnome.org. NP: Yanqui U.X.O. – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
I finally got around to clearing out my ~/Programming and publishing a number of the silly toy projects I’ve built up over the years that might be useful to someone, somewhere. A brief overview of what I’ve basically thrown over the wall to GitHub: flickrest A Python/Twisted library for the Flickr API. This was written [...]
Whilst Tasks isn’t exactly under active development, I’m still maintaining it because I actually use it (unlike certain other projects, ahem). So, Tasks 0.18 is released. Huge translation update, including several missing strings Add a “tomorrow” button to the date popup Support adding tasks from the command line Use “category” over “group” consistantly Ensure the [...]
As acting release engineer of the Gypsy project (a GPS mux, if you didn’t know) I’m proud to announce the release of Gypsy 0.8. So, what’s new? Support the Nokia N810 integrated GPS. If someone can verify that this works for the N900 too, that would be great. Ability to dump the parsed NMEA to [...]
Sound Juicer “I Got Nobody On My Side And Surely That Ain’t Right” 2.28.1 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Props to Bastien for doing most of the work here. Many translations Use gnome-session instead of gnome-power-manager to avoid the machine going to sleep (Richard Hughes) Fix [...]
Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME and GStreamer. Screenshots Main window Preferences dialog Download Latest download: sound-juicer-2.28.1.tar.bz2. Bugs can be reported at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. [...]
Postr is a Flickr uploading tool for the GNOME desktop, which aims to be simple to use but exposing enough of Flickr to be useful. I don’t maintain Postr any more, so please see the new project page for the latest news and sources.